The Poison of Love
K.R. Meera
Penguin Random House
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₹299
Tulsi escapes to Vrindavan, seeking redemption amidst the cries of its anguished widows. When her past catches up with her, old wounds resurface with dramatic consequences. The Poison of Love
is a spellbinding tale of love and sacrifice, pain and retribution.
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The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled From India to Europe For Love
Per J Andersson
Oneworld Publications
₹319
Pradyumna Kumar, known as PK, was born into a poor family in a small village in eastern India. This is the remarkable true story of how he armed himself with nothing more than a handful of paintbrushes and a secondhand bicycle and made his way across Asia and Europe in search of a woman.
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Our Story Ends Here
Sara Naveed
Penguin Random House
₹199
Mehar is looking forward to an adventurous trip in Swat whereas Sarmad is on a deadly mission.
Unwittingly, their paths cross and destinies collide, once again.
Is this the end of their story? Or has it just begun? Our Story Ends Here is a romantic thriller.
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Suspected Poems
Gulzar
Translated by Pavan K Varma
₹299
Written in Gulzar’s inimitable style, the poems in his newest volume reflect and comment, sometimes elliptically through a visual image, sometimes with breathtaking immediacy and directness, on the political reality in the country today. Powerful, poignant and impossible to ignore or gloss over, the fifty-two threads that make up Suspected Poems unfold across the entire political spectrum.
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Thamel: Dark Star of Kathmandu
Rabi Thapa
Speaking Tiger Books
₹399
In this unusual biography of a place, Rabi Thapa revisits the haunts of his youth. Tramping around its temples and monasteries, he unravels its layered history as well as the tales of the kings, monks and travelling merchants who laid its foundations. From residents—both Nepali and those who visited and never left—he pieces together the story of Kathmandu.
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Chandni Chowk: The Mughal City of Old Delhi
Swapna Liddle
Speaking Tiger Books